Word: succor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, if not in title, Otto Dibelius has been a bishop of the visible church for most of his life. He believes in the visible church, believes that it must be maintained, at all costs, to succor the faithful, to make believers of the ignorant, and to lead...
...huddle in small groups in their living rooms and cast mutinous glances at their television sets. In bitter whispers, they account past sacrifices to the squat, pudgy object which stares back blankly out of its glassy eye. It was supposed to reunite the American family, revitalize the entertainment business, succor the optical industry. For these boons, people were quite willing, when the set took up residence, to shift their furniture and remodel their draperies to give it a fit setting. And they suffered through telecrane (a stiffness of the muscles of the neck) and telesquint (an eye disorder) with hardly...
...really in the center of a saucer ringed by mountains is a fact few Cantabridgians know until they take a trip out to the Blue Hills of Canton. From the observatory on top of Great Blue Hill one can see the entire city, and nearby Houghton's Pond proffers succor to weary hikers. A not-too-juicy snack bar, a fairly decent picnic grounds, and mood music from the American Legion band somehow attract hundreds of city-dwellers out to spend a day in the open...
...orphans. One witness, an eleven-year-old girl, shrilly testified that she had been locked up with other youngsters in a room infested with hungry rats that ate at the children's flesh. The sisters, all from the Holy Child orphanage, which for 42 years had given succor and shelter to abandoned Chinese children, were denounced by the Red judge as "vicious imperialists...
...made clear that if not permitted to destroy the enemy-built-up bases north of the Yalu, if not permitted to utilize the friendly Chinese force of some 600,000 men on Formosa, if not permitted to blockade the China coast to prevent the Chinese Reds from getting succor from without, and if there were to be no hope of major reinforcements, the position of the command from the military standpoint forbade victory...